"Museum of Phrases"

“…one of the most mind-bogglingly brilliant feats of hi-tech appropriation of sound and vision you’re ever likely to witness.” The Herald, UK

The hit of the 2004 Edinburgh International Festival, Eraritjaritjaka is an enigmatic and magical piece of European theatre from one of Germany’s leading directors, Heiner Goebbels.

In an exquisite exploration of identity and self, artificiality and reality, Goebbels layers words, images and music to manipulate the audience’s experience of time and space. This is heightened by the use of real-time video and the onstage performance of the superb Mondriaan Quartet, playing a score that encompasses the work of composers from Bach to Goebbels himself.

Working with a text assembled from fragments of writing by Nobel Prize-winning author and critic Elias Canetti, French actor André Wilms sets out on an intriguing journey that will leave audiences stunned.

Goebbels’ previous works, including Hashirigaki, Black on White, and Max Black, have toured extensively to universal acclaim and Eraritjaritjaka inspired a reviewer at The Scotsman  to declare that a performance of Goebbels' work "should be mandatory every festival". this is your opportunity to experience a truly absorbing piece of theatre that defies definition.

In French with English surtitles

 

 

If this event interests you, our Artistic Director also recommends Pre-show dialogue with Director/Composer Heiner Goebbels, The Clemenger BBDO Season of Super Vision, Tea: A Mirror of Soul, New Zealand String Quartet, The Dragon's Trilogy, and James MacMillan Conducts.

24 Feb, 7:30pm
25 Feb, 7:30pm
26 Feb, 1:30pm
26 Feb, 7:30pm